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Government’s increasingly strident rhetoric is ‘sliding off’ independent candidates, former Indi MP says

‘At no point in my lifetime has the ABC been more important than it is today,’ says Kerry O’Brien in one campaign video

A leader of Argentina’s Ni Una Menos movement on how to fight back

Indifference and disdain are the great solvents of a functioning democracy. When voters conclude that all politicians are as bad as one another, they cease to believe in the capacity of electoral choice to deliver significant change. 

Orthodox Christianity is a relatively small faith tradition in the U.S., but in recent years it has expanded to new regions. Some new converts are using the religion to spread white nationalist views.

China said on Tuesday that an expression of concern by the Group of Seven industrialised nations over the selection process for Hong Kong's new chief executive was interference in China's internal affairs.

The son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos cemented a landslide presidential election victory Tuesday, as Filipinos bet on a familiar dynasty to ease rampant poverty -- dismissing warnings the tarnished clan will deepen corruption and weaken democracy. With an initial count almost complete, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Junior had secured…

The Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld the one-year prison sentence given to four leaders of the former People's Alliance for Democracy for breaking into and damaging the premises of state-run NBT TV station in 2008.

The selection process for a new chief executive in Hong Kong is a source of grave concern and underscores wider worries about fundamental freedoms there, a Group of Seven statement said on Monday, prompting a rebuke from China.